Next To Me - Imagine Dragons

The Experience:Can anyone truly be forgiven? The answer is in the loved ones who stay at my side even when we shatter their lives, and in the God who's still next to me to forgive even the things they can't...

Music video: Can anyone be truly forgiven? Reynold cheats on his wife Aja, then goes of the deep end when she leaves him, kills a man and ends up in a cell. Somewhere there in the darkness he repents and asks for the forgiveness he knows he can't earn. That sets his soul free. But it still doesn't erase the evil he did or the death penalty he deserves. The video is a testimony to the freedom that repentance brings... but only if there is more than this life. In the video his wife forgives him far too late to save him. The salvation Dan Reynolds sings for is something else. Something more impossible. Something to hope for only if in the end, after we've paid as much as we can of our unpayable debt, someone can still grant us the forgiveness we don't deserve, and let us know we're still alive.

The Meaning of Next To Me: The songs charts a completely unfair relationship. We fail. We betray. We always let you down. And still you want me. Forgiveness and fidelity meet wretchedness. We just hope and somehow hope to be worth it... That's the bittersweet reality of some relationships: beauty on one end and the tragedy on the other. And deep down that's our truth. We fail. We betray. We always let you down. But somehow God is always there next to us. Somehow that fidelity gives us the worth we can't earn for ourselves.

Dear Reynold, my heart is brokenIt's so badly broken that I fear it will never be whole againI'm leaving youAll the promises you madeAll the love we hadDestroyedMaybe you never meant itMaybe you knew all along you would just string me along for all these yearsYou are not the man I thought you wereYou never wereI believed what we had was sacredYou just gave it awayAll of itLyin', cheatin', failureI will erase you from my heart from my mindI will wash you away and I will never look backYou chose thisYou decided that I wasn't enoughAnd that was itI am enough for someoneJust not youGoodbye, Aja"Nope, it's two hundred. Two hundred""Give it back"[Reynold]We spend our life thinking about the mistakesthings we wish we could take backif I could I would take them backI would burn themI beg you to never know me"Give me everything you've got""Just take it easy"

To forget every wrong thing I ever didI ever said"Just take it easy"Forgive me for what I've doneI'm sitting in the darkness and I know they're coming for meThe sky's open and the ghost came backThese are the witnesses, the ones who know all my sinsWhere I've beenThe past and the presentThey take the forms of those forgotten, unknown, never allowedI failed all of youI let you all dieI let you goPart of me is next to me"See you around, Tony""Good luck, kid"Today is the day I get to go home to youAll of the journey from the travelling roadto the strange sidingsthe visions of beautythe odd disruptionsThey're all for youfor your power and loveholding menext to meMy dearest, I failed youI failed usI'm sorry"Tony!"I'm so sorryLove, Reynold"Aggghhh!"[Aja]We ask for forgivenessFrom ourselfFrom the monster we can't seeCan anyone be truly forgiven?Potential fateMy historyThe ending of destinyThe possibility of life without love[Reynold]Hold me foreverTouch me now before i goLet me know I'm aliveLet me know I'm aliveLYRICS:Something about the way that you walked into my living roomCasually and confident lookin' at the mess I amBut still you, still you want meStress lines and cigarettes, politics and deficitsLate bills and overages, screamin' and hollerin'But still you, still you want meOh, I always let you downYou're shattered on the groundBut still I find you thereNext to meAnd oh, stupid things I doI'm far from good, it's trueBut still I find youNext to meThere's something about the way that you always see the pretty viewOverlook the blooded mess, always lookin' effortlessAnd still you, still you want meI got no innocence, faith ain't no privilegeI am a deck of cards, vice or a game of heartsAnd still you, still you want meOh, I always let you downYou're shattered on the groundBut still I find you thereNext to meAnd oh, stupid things I doI'm far from good, it's trueBut still I find youNext to meSo thank you for taking a chance on meI know it isn't easyBut I hope to be worth itSo thank you for taking a chance on meI know it isn't easyBut I hope to be worth itOh, I always let you down (I always let you down)You're shattered on the ground (shattered on the ground)But still I find you thereNext to meAnd oh, stupid things I do (stupid things I do)I'm far from good, it's trueBut still I find youNext to me (next to me)review by Benjamin O'Loughlin

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